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11. TIMKEN.- Fifth-Wheel.

No. 226,636. Patented April 20, I880.

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HENRY TIMKEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FIFTH-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,636, dated April20, 1880.

Application filed February 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY TIMKEN, a citizenof the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the countyof St. Louisand State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement inCarriages, of which the followin g is a specification.

My invention consists in so arranging the fifth-wheel of a carriage,buggy, or vehicle that it is provided with a stay passing under the foreaxle and connecting with the coupling, and also with a spring, toprevent the fifthwheel from clattering. It is also cut olf back of thefore axle, so as to allow the body to be setlower than in ordinarycarriages or buggies.

Figure I shows a top view of my invention connected to the running-gearand body. Fig. II shows a side view of the fifth-wheel, running gear,and body combined. Fig. III shows a front "iew of bolster, front axle,spring, fifth-wheel, stay, andpart of coupling. Fig. IV shows a detachedfront view of the end of the stay, the spring, and upper and lower partof the fifth-wheel. Fig. V shows a detached top view of the fifth-wheel,bolster, stay, and king-bolt. Fig. VI shows a side sectional view of thebolster, fifth-wheel, stay, front axle, and part of coupling.

A represents the fifth-wheel of a carriage, which is made in theordinary way, except that it is cut away in that part of its peripheryback of the front axle, so as to allow the body 0 to pass below that.point without interfering with it. It is also stayed by an iron or steelbar fastened to the front and upper portion of the fifth-wheel andpassing down and under the front axle, and is connected with thecoupling D in a permanent manner. E is the bolster, to which the upperpart of claim is laid to it, for other lowered couplings have been inuse for some time.

J is the bolt that passes down through the bolster E, axle, and stay B,as shown in Fig. I, and is fastened underneath with a nut or otherappropriate means. This is also old; so is the body 0 and the manner ofcoupling the body to the gearing.

F represents a half of the ordinary elliptical spring, with its centerfastened to the under part of the end of the stay B by an adjustablebolt, 1, as seen in Fig. IV, and with its ends bearing upon the lowerpart of the lower half of the fifth-wheel. By the spring F thus pressingupon the lower part of the lower half of the fifth-wheel it is preventedfrom clattering or making a noise.

As the spring F wears or becomes weak by use it may be tightened by thecommon adjust-able bolt J.

Now, what I claim, and for which I ask Letters Patent of the UnitedStates to be granted me, is

1. The spring F, as above described, in combination with the fifthwvheelA of a buggy, for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the parts A, F, and B, substantially as abovedescribed, and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY TIMKEN.

Witnesses:

WM. M. EocLEs, H. O. HOFFMEIS'IER.

